Berkeley Old Time Music Convention Square Dance

Thomas Maupin, the most renowned Tennessee buck dancer of his generation, grew up on a farm in Eagleville, Tennessee, with nine brothers and sisters. All of them were self-taught buck dancers. His own dancing was most influenced by his older brother, Ollie, and his grandmother. Winner of state championships in Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, and Indiana, and six-time winner of the National Old-Time Buck Dancing Championship, in 2017 Thomas Maupin received our nation’s highest honor for traditional music, the National Heritage Fellowship.